Totoro Week Gone Wild: How To Make A Catbus Cake

Oct 30

Oct30

Catbus may very well be the ultimate feline party train – a flying fat cat faced furry magical bus that flies through the air, splaying eight fluffy spider-like legs, transporting sad children to catch a glimpse of their ill mother who is recovering in hospital. Continuing my celebratory snack attack EDIBLE TOTORO WEEK with I Am A Food Blog, I present to you: CATBUS CAKE!

You Will Need:

1 recipe for a cake of your choice baked in a loaf pan (I used a 9 x 5 x 3 inch) and cooled completely.

Cover the entire cake with buttercream – don’t worry if it doesn’t look perfectly frosted because you’ll be piping on top of it.

Step Three

Make your fondant details. Using the white fondant, make two triangles for the catbus ears. Cut a wooden skewer in two and place a triangle on each skewer. Roll out a log-like piece for the catbus tail. Using your rolling pin, roll out the remaining white fondant. Using the pizza cutter, slice rectangular “windows” in even sizes. Finally, Cut out a banana-like shape for the smiley teeth – indent teeth marks by gently pressing down with a paring knife (without cutting through). Make an upside down triangle catbus nose using the orange fondant. Roll out the yellow fondant and punch out two large eyes and a “slit” like shape for the cat’s pupil. Roll out the black fondant and punch out black circles for the irises. Adhere it all together with a tiny amount of water. Roll the remaining black fondant into cat whiskers!

Step Four

Place the eyes and teeth on the designated front of the loaf cake by gently pressing into the buttercream. Insert the ears.

Press the windows into the sides of the cake.

Place the “tail” on the cake board. Get your piping bags ready!

Step Five

Pipe an inverted triangle shape of chocolate buttercream onto the face of the catbus.

Step Six

Continue piping the entire top of the catbus with the chocolate buttercream.

Pipe a line of chocolate buttercream across the side, underneath the windows!

Pipe around the edges of the ears!

Step Seven

Using the tinted buttercream, fill in the rest of CATBUS! Give him fur, people! Let him live!!

Pipe the tail, too! Finally, place the nose and the whiskers on his face!

I made a few speech bubbly hand stamped signs for my Catbus Cake! GET ON MY BUS! (no presh). I also hand drew a fat and funny Totoro! You can also make a Totoro out of fondant, too!

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